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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns launched by the papacy between 1095 and 1291 against Muslim rulers for the recovery and defence of the Holy Land, as part of a wider crusading movement. The First Crusade was proclaimed by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in November 1095—a call to arms for Christians to reconquer Jerusalem from…

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Terminology

Background

First Crusade

Conquest, consolidation and defence

Fall and recovery

Fall of the Crusader states

Aftermath

Legacy

Historiography

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related to Primary sources · 104
Crusades → Aachen, Abu'l-Fida, Abū Shāma, Albert, Alexiad, Ali, Anna Komnene, Arab, Arabic, Armenian, Arnold, Athir, Ayni, Badr, Baha, Byzantine, Byzantium, Chartres, Chiprois, Chronicle
related to Aftermath · 54
Crusades → Alexandria, Alexandrian Crusade, Amid, Armenian, Avignon, Catholic, Charles II, Colonna, Corycus, Cyprus, Edward, Edward II, Egypt, Egyptian, England, English, Fidentius, France, Frankish East, Franks
related to Final crusades in the Holy Land · 43
Crusades → Acre, Anjou's, Bohemia, Byzantine, Byzantium, Charles, Christian, Christianity's, Church Abuses, Collectio, Collection, Convinced, Dominican William, Ecclesiae, Emperor Michael VIII, Folquet, France, Franciscan, German, Gregory
related to Barons' Crusade · 41
Crusades → Albigensian Crusades, April, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Balian, Baltic, Beirut, Bosnian Crusade, By Emperor Frederick II's, Castile, Christians, Cyprus, Córdoba, Drenther, Ferdinand III, Filangieri, Frederick, Genoese, Henry, Ibelin
related to Secondary sources · 21
Crusades → Bibliography, Croisades, Crusading, Early, Edward Gibbon's Decline, Fall, French, Histoire, Historiography, Joseph François Michaud, Louis Maimbourg, Modern, Other, Roman Empire, Terre Sainte, The, The Crusades, These, This, Voltaire's Histoire
related to Terminology · 19
Crusades → Albigensian Crusades, Christian, Church, Early, Europe, Holy Land, Holy Sepulchre, Iberian, In, Jerusalem, Launched, Muslim, Northern, Other, Palestine, Participants, Terminology, The Crusades, Western Christians
related to Legacy · 14
Crusades → Arab, Christian, Christianity, Crusader, Historical, Islam, Islamic, Israel, Middle Ages, Modern Muslim, Right-wing, The Crusades, These, Western
related to Fall of the Crusader states · 13
Crusades → Earlier, German, Great Khan, Hungary, June, Levantine Crusades, Middle Eastern, Mongol, Mongols, Muslim, Poland, Pope Gregory IX, The
related to Tertiary sources · 9
Crusades → Alan, An Encyclopedia, Catholic Encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ernest Barker, Louis Bréhier's, Murray, The Crusades, Three
see also · 8
Crusades → Bibliography, ChristianityA History, Crusader, CrusadesCriticism, CrusadesHistory, Knights Hospitaller, Knights TemplarMilitary, LevantHistory

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crusade jerusalem muslim crusaders ii holy crusader frederick first antioch pope louis france land crusading baldwin new french knights 000

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croisadeinstance oflater supplanted by forms0.80text
crusadoinstance oflater supplanted by forms0.80text
both influenced by Spanish through Frenchinstance oflater supplanted by forms0.80text
Walter Sans Avoirinstance ofalongside some nobles0.80text
Stephen of Bloisinstance ofit included deserters0.80text
Hugh of Vermandoisinstance ofit included deserters0.80text
sodomyinstance ofissuing decrees against sexual offences0.80text
relations with Muslimsinstance ofissuing decrees against sexual offences0.80text
the Saxon duke Henry the Lioninstance ofDespite leadership by nobles0.80text
the crusaders failed against the Wendish prince Niklot.The crusaders departed for the Holy Land in Mayinstance ofDespite leadership by nobles0.80text
June 1147instance ofDespite leadership by nobles0.80text
Conon of Béthune also spread the message of the bullinstance ofTroubadours0.80text

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